Literary Awards & Prizes

UK Awards (for UK citizens)

• Author’s Club First Novel Award
• Betty Trask Award
• Man Booker Prize
• The National Book Awards
• Chancellor’s Gold Medal
• Desmond Elliott Prize (annual award for a first novel written in English and published in the UK)
• Forward Prize
• Hawthornden Prize
• Hessell-Tiltman Prize
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
• John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
• Marsh Biography Award
• Meyer-Whitworth Award
• Newdigate Prize
• The Orwell Prize
• Samuel Johnson Prize
• Somerset Maugham Award
• T. S. Eliot Prize
• Waverton Good Read Award
• Costa Book Awards

International Awards

• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children’s and youth literature
• Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award for poets and translators (presented annually to outstanding Hungarian poets and European poets who translate pieces of Hungarian literature)
• The Bookseller Diagram Prize (for Oddest Book Title of the Year)
• Commonwealth Book Prize
• Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – Best First Book
• Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – Best Book
• Costa Book Awards for writers based in the UK and Ireland
• Dayton Literary Peace Prize
• Duff Cooper Prize
• Dundee International Book Prize
• Desmond Elliott Prize (annual award for a first novel written in English and published in the UK)
• European Union Prize for Literature
• Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
• Goethe Prize
• Guardian First Book Award
• Hans Christian Andersen Award for children’s literature
• IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
• Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
• Jan Michalski Prize for Literature
• Jerusalem Prize
• KONS International Literary Award
• LA Times Book Prize for Fiction
• Man Booker International Prize
• Montreal International Poetry Prize
• National Book Award for Fiction for a book written by an American citizen and published by an American publisher
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction honours the best literature published in the United States
• Neustadt International Prize for Literature
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• Ovid Prize
• Paris Literary Prize
• PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
• Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa
• Princess of Asturias Awards
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• Women’s Prize for Fiction

English Language

• Chancellor’s Gold Medal for poetry
• Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for English-language women playwrights
• Lionel Gelber Prize
• Warwick Prize for Writing
• Truman Capote Award for literary criticism in the English language – University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
• The Marsh Children’s Literature in Translation Award

Biography

• Marsh Biography Award – awarded biennially for the best biography written by a British author and first published in the UK during the two preceding years.

Children’s Literature

• Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor (USA)
• Carnegie Medal (UK)
• Caldecott Medal and Caldecott Honor (USA) for illustration
• Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards (Australia)
• Governor General’s Award for English language Children’s Literature (Canada)
• Jane Addams Children’s Book Award (USA)
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (USA)
• Hans Christian Andersen Award (International)
• Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration (UK)
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award (USA)
• Guardian Award (UK)
• Coretta Scott King Award for African-American Literature (USA)
• Tir na n-Og Awards (Wales, UK)
• Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (UK)
• Literary Classics Children’s and Young Adult Book Awards (International)
• Prix Sorcières (France)
• Governor General’s Award for French language children’s literature (Canada)
• Bisto Book of the Year Awards (Now CBI Book of the Year Awards) (Ireland)
• Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award (USA)
• Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers’ Literature (USA)
• The Eilis Dillon Award (Ireland)
• Angus Book Award (UK)
• Pura Belpré Award for Latino literature (USA)
• Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation (UK)
• Children’s Laureate (UK)
• Michael L. Printz Award for young adult literature (USA)
• Sibert Medal for informational books (USA)
• Mildred L. Batchelder Award
• Super Dash Novel Rookie of the Year Award (Japan)
• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (International)
• The Calistro Prize (Malaysia)

Crime Fiction

• Agatha Award
• Anthony Award
• Arthur Ellis Awards
• Barry Award
• Best Swedish Crime Novel Award – awarded by Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy
• Crime Writers’ Association awards:
  • Diamond Dagger
  • Gold Dagger
  • Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
  • John Creasey Dagger
  • International
  • Non-Fiction
  • Short Story Award
  • Library
  • Endeavour Historical
• Glass Key Award
• Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
• Hammett Prize
• Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize – awarded by Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan
• Left Coast Crime Awards
  • Lefty Award
  • The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award
  • Crimelandia Awards
• Macavity Award
• Martin Beck Award
• Mephisto Prize
• Mystery Writers of America Awards:
  • Edgar Award
• Mystery Writers of Japan awards:
  • Mystery Writers of Japan Award
  • Edogawa Rampo Award
• Shamus Award
• Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award

History

• Wolfson History Prize
• Cundill Prize for historical non-fiction

Horror Fiction

• Bram Stoker Award

Speculative Fiction

• Hugo Award
• Nebula Award
• Ditmar Award (Australia)
• BSFA Award
• Seiun Award
• Locus Award
• Mythopoeic Awards – Awards for the best of mythic fantasy, following in the tradition of J. R. R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis
• Prix Tour-Apollo Award
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
• John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction
• World Fantasy Award
• Paul Harland Prize (Netherlands)
• Prometheus Award
• Nihon SF Taisho Award
• Prix Aurora Award (Canada)
• Prix Rosny-Aîné (France)
• Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis (Germany)
• Philip K. Dick Award
• Compton Crook Award
• Janusz A. Zajdel Award (Poland)
• Writers of the Future
• Tähtivaeltaja Award (Finland)
• Arthur C. Clarke Award
• Japan Fantasy Novel Award
• Sir Julius Vogel Award (New Zealand)
• Urania Award (Italy)
• SFRA Pioneer Award
• Tiptree Award
• Australian Science Fiction Foundation Awards:
  • A. Bertram Chandler Award
  • Norma K. Hemming Award
• Sidewise Award for Alternate History
• Aurealis Award (Australia)
• Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service
• Endeavour Award (Pacific Northwest)
• Nautilus Award (Poland)
• WSFA Small Press Award
• Tähtifantasia Award (Finland)
• Kitschies (UK)